BUBBLE AND STRIFE

It's happy days for Hammers as Arteta's misfiring Gunners suffer derby despair

THE sense of injustice is killing Arsenal's challenge.

And yet they were the ones shooting themselves in the foot as they failed to reclaim pole position in the title race.

We will be talking forever about whether the ball crossed the line in the build-up to Tomas Soucek's winner as West Ham shocked Arsenal at the Emirates.

VAR could not find any conclusive proof to show the ball was out of play so they stuck with referee Michael Oliver's on-field decision to give the goal. You can find angles and dodgy illustrations on the internet to supposedly prove it was out, and it will only add to the conspiracy theories about devious plots to derail Arsenal's title bid.

But the reality is the goal was scored in the 13th minute and they had plenty of time to come back but could not find a way through and it must go down as Arsenal's worst performance of the season.